Court Program Gives HOPE to Addict

Published August 24, 2013

Court program gives HOPE to addict
Thomas Carney is a graduate of the Hope Court, an alternative sentencing program aimed at people with arrests related to homelessness and drug addiction. … Heroin's pull was too strong. But this time he had help. It came from the very people who'd … Read more on Las Vegas Review-Journal

A mother's despair: her son's suicide in jail could have been prevented
Hill is frustrated by the lack of drug treatment programs in Nevada, and with good reason. Nevada spends just one-tenth of 1 percent of its state budget on drug prevention, treatment and research, according to the National Center on Addiction and … Read more on Las Vegas Sun

Former madam Heidi Fleiss charged in Nevada for growing 400 marijuana …
… indicted for her failure to report income and pay taxes instead of the actual crimes, which are harder to prove.) After she got out of prison, Heidi struggled with drug addiction, especially with crystal meth, for years and had multiple rehab … Read more on Starcasm.net